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Cosmic Vision

  • ATHENA (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics)

    16 Jan 2012

    Following a decision in 2011 by ESA to reformulate the L-class Cosmic Vision missions as Europe-only/Europe-led missions a study team was established to develop the fundamentals of a new mission to replace IXO, whilst maintaining its science goals as much as possible.

  • Euclid

    17 Nov 2011

    Until about thirty years ago astronomers thought that the Universe was composed almost entirely of ordinary matter: protons, neutrons, electrons and atoms. In the intervening years the emerging picture of the composition of the Universe has changed dramatically.

  • JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE)

    30 Jan 2012

    Following a decision by ESA to reformulate the L-Class missions as European only missions, in April 2011 a new Science Space Team (SST) was formed whose task is to study if and which of the science goals of the original EJSM-Laplace mission concept can be achieved. The new mission is now renamed JUICE (JUipter ICy moon Explorer).

  • New Gravitational wave Observatory (NGO)

    4 Jan 2012

    Following a decision in 2011 by ESA to reformulate the L-class Cosmic Vision missions as Europe-only/Europe-led missions a study team was established to develop the fundamentals of a new mission to replace LISA, whilst maintaining its science goals as much as possible.

  • PLATO

    13 Jan 2012

    The PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission is designed to seek out exoplanets (planets beyond our solar system).

  • Solar Orbiter

    17 Nov 2011

    Solar Orbiter is an ESA-led mission due for launch in 2017. It will travel closer to the Sun than any previous mission, going to within approximately a quarter of the Earth’s distance from the Sun.


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